Watch supporting bracket



April 12, 1932. F. A. WINTERS 1,853,483

WATCH SUPPORTING BRACKET Filed Oct. 12, 1929 E627? 751i. Zens.

Patented Apr. 12, 1932 1,853,483

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRANK A. WINTERS, F ASTORIA, NW YORK WATCH SUPPORTING BRACKET Application filed October 12, 1929. Serial No. 399,271.

My invention is an improvement in supvided at its edges with outwardly projecting porting brackets and relates more especially curved spring fingers 11 equally spaced apart to a bracket designed for the purpose of supwith their terminals turned back, as at 12, porting a watch on the instrument board of to facilitate placing the watch in engagement 5 an automobile. with the fingers said plate being cut away as 50 The primary object of my invention is to shown for lightness of construction and pro provide a watch supporting bracket for auto vided with rearwardly projecting knobs 13 mobiles which will hold the watch securely for spacing the plate away from the wall or in place on the instrument board and permit board to which the bracket is attached. The

it to be easily swung out for convenience in plate of the supporting bracket is secured 55 winding. to the wall or board by a single screw 14: which A further object of my invention is to propasses through an aperture at the center of vide awatch supporting bracket of light consaid plate which is depressed at 15 around the struction and ornamental in appearance with aperture for countersinking the head of. the

15 the principal parts hidden behind the watch screw, and it will be noted by reference to Fig. 60 when the latter is gripped in the bracket, as i that the outer edge of the rearwardly well as provide that the bracket may be sestamped central portion of the plate through cured in place by a single screw. which the aperture extends is on a vertical With these principal objects in view my plane with the outer ends of the knobs or pro- 2 invention consists of a supporting bracket tuberances 13 leaving a'space between the 65 comprising an attaching plate with gripping plate and wall or board to which the bracket fingers engaging the edges of the watch, in is attached for the play of a slidable member connection with a slotted member through 16 to which the ring 17 of the watch 18 is which the attaching screw passes, said memconnected as shown in Fig. 5.

her having a loop to which the ring of the The slidable member or connector 16 is 7 Watch is connected and which permits the formed of a strip of metal reduced in width watch to be swung a distance away from the centrally and bent upon itself to provide 'a bracket and instrument board for convenloop 19 with which the ring of the watch ience in winding the watch; all as hereinengages, the wider end portions 20 of said after fully described and more specificially strip being brought together and provided 175 set forth in the appended claims. with a vertical slot 21 into which the rear- In the drawings: wardly stamped central portion of the plate Figure 1 is a front elevation illustrating having the aperture for the attaching screw the application of my improved watch suppasses when said slidable member is connectporting bracket. ed to the bracket between the plate and in- Fig. 2 is a detail front elevation of the supstrument board as shown in Fig. 5, the spacporting bracket. ing of the plate by means of said rearward- Fig. 3 is a side view thereof. ly stamped central portion and knobs per- Fig. 4c is a vertical sectional view through mitting of free sliding movement of the mem- 4c the center of the bracket, and her or connector for the watch in moving the 385 Fig. 5 is a side view with the watch suplatter away from the instrument board in ported in the bracket in full lines and away winding the same. from the bracket in dotted lines. In connecting the watch to the support- In carrying out my invention I employ a ing bracket one member of the looped metal plate 10 preferably circular in shape and prostrip or connector is passed through the ring 17 of the watch so that said ring will enga e the loop 19 of the connector and the body portion 20 of the latter is then positioned in the rear of the metal plate of the bracket so that the attaching screw 14 will pass through the slot 21 on into the instrument board. The connector thereby secures the watch to the supporting bracket and permits the watch to be placed in engagement with the fingers for supporting it by the bracket, as well as allows the watch to be swung outwardly from the bracket for the purpose of winding the same. It will be seen therefore that the connector 16 not only serves the purpose of securing the watch to the bracket against its being entirely removed but also provides for swinging it away in winding as its close proximity to the instrument board would otherwise make it inconvenient to turn the winding stem. It will be seen also that my improved bracket presents a simple and inexpensive device which will neatly support a watch on the instrument board of an automobile as the only parts of the bracket which are exposed to view are the ends of the fingers which grip the edges of the watch.

I claim:

1. A watch supportingvbracket for automobiles comprising an attaching plate having an apertu-re'for the attaching screw, gripping 'fin'gers extending outwardly from the plate to receive the watch between them, a member held in place by the attaching screw and in sliding engagement with the attaching plate and a loop at the outer end of said sliding member with which the ring of the watch is adapted to engage.

2. A watch supporting bracket for automobiles comprising an attaching plate having a central aperture for the attaching screw, knobs projecting rearwardly from the plate to space the same from the instrument board of the automobile, and a slidable member held in place by the attaching screw and having a loop with which the ring of the watch is adapted to engage, said slidable member being at the back of the'plate between the aforesaid knobs.

3. A watch supporting bracket for automobiles comprising an attaching plate having outwardly projecting spring fingers between which the watch is held, knobs projecting rearwardly from the plate to space the same from the instrument board, the plate having a central aperture through which the attaching'screw passes, and a member slidable at the back of the plate between the aforesaid knobs and having a loop with which the ring of the watch is adapted to engage.

' 4; A watch supporting bracket for automobiles comprising an attachin plate having outwardly projecting spring ngers between which the watch is held, knobs projecting rearwardly'from the plate tospace the same to the bracket.

FRANK A. WINTERS. 

